The Fukang Meteorite stands as one of the most exceptional and highly valued meteorites ever discovered, boasting both a ...

NASA: Meteorites probably near Livingston County's Hamburg Township “I’m 90% sure it was stony. It’s the most common," Cooke said. "Rocks are very common in the solar system.

To link any meteorite to a specific asteroid type, moon or planet is extremely challenging. For example, laboratory analysis of Apollo samples allowed meteorites found in desert collection expeditions ...

The largest Mars meteorite ever found on Earth was sold at a Sotheby's auction in New York on Wednesday for $5.3 million.

It’s the first meteorite to land intact in the U.K. for 31 years, and it’s a rare type of meteorite from somewhere between Mars and Jupiter that formed about 4.5 billion years ago.

He said it was a “stony” type meteorite, containing stone and metal. It weighed 8 1/2 pounds and was 7 inches long at its longest. *** Shortly after that it was returned to the Hodgeses.

The researchers analyzed three meteorites of a type known as CM-type carbonaceous chondrites, which have a composition considered representative of the material from which the sun and planets formed. ...

"A meteorite hunter found the specimen on Friday, June 27, in Henry County. It’s a 150-gram chondrite meteorite—a stony-type meteorite containing small mineral granules." ...

Stone meteorites are much scarcer and priced in the US$2.00 to US$20.00 per gram range for the more common material. It is not unusual for the truly scarce material to exceed US$1,000 per gram.

We know the lunar meteorites are from the Moon because we can compare them to the rocks recovered during NASA’s Apollo missions. We know the Martian ones are from Mars because of NASA’s Viking ...